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Globalization, Credence Goods and International Civil Society
Krautheim, Sebastian; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The process of globalization is characterized by an impressive growth in global value chains, as well as the … potential NGO emergence allows firms to capture gains from globalization, which would otherwise be unattainable. We show that …
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Trade Liberalization and Organizational Change
Conconi, Paola; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We embed a simple incomplete-contracts model of organization design in a standard two-country perfectly-competitive trade model to examine how the liberalization of product and factor markets affects the ownership structure of firms. In our model, managers decide whether or not to integrate...
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'Globalization' and Relocation in a Vertically Differentiated Industry
Cordella, Tito; Grilo, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
decisions, when the removal either of trade barriers or of restrictions on capital outflows/inflows (‘globalization’) allows … yields the relocation of the whole industry, autarchy is strictly better, in welfare terms, than ‘globalization’. It is only … when relocation is a dominant strategy for one (and only one) of the firms, that ‘globalization’ may be unambiguously …
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Religion and Innovation
Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...
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Culture, Institutions and Democratization
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under an individualistic and a collectivist culture. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy faster...
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Product-Based Cultural Change: Is the Village Global?
Maystre, Nicolas; Olivier, Jacques; Thoenig, Mathias; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper makes three contributions to the growing literature on culture and economics. Using answers to the World Values Survey for a sample of 79 countries over the 1989-2004 period, we first provide evidence of cultural homogenization between countries. Second, we provide a model of...
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Teaching Practices and Social Capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
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Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia
Durante, Ruben; Labartino, Giovanna; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...
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The Right Amount of Trust
Butler, Jeff; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
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